10th National Games opens in E.China

A huge silver robot holds the torch to light the cauldron during the opening ceremony of the 10th National Games of the People's Republic of China in Nanjing Olympic Sports Center in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, Oct. 12, 2005. The ceremony was held here on Thursday.

Hu meets Rogge, attends opening ceremony of the 10th National Games

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) shakes hands with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, Oct. 12, 2005. Rogge started his six-day tour of five Chinese cities on Tuesday, including attending the opening ceremony of the 10th National Games of The People's Republic of China on Wednesday night.

UNFPA report emphasizes gender equity and reproductive health

Executive director of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Thoraya Ahmed Obaid speaks during a news conference held in London, Britain, Oct. 12, 2005. The conference was to launch a UNFPA report, entitled State of World Population 2005, emphasized the importance of gender equity and reproductive health in the process of achieving the world's development goals agreed at the 2005 World Summit in New York last month.

8th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention (WCEC) held in Seoul

CEO of Shanghai Automative Industry Co. Chen Xianglin is interviewed at a press conference after a forum of the leading Korean and Chinese CEOs during the 8th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention (WCEC) in Seoul Oct. 12, 2005. CEOs of leading South Korean and Chinese companies were present at the forum, confirmed the potential of the two sides as optimal economic partners and discussed means for co-prosperity.

Asia Pacific Cities Summit opens in Chongqing

Wang Hongju, Mayor of Chongqing, presides over the opening of the fifth Asia Pacific Cities Summit (APCS) in southwest China's Chongqing municipality Oct. 12, 2005. Nearly 1,000 guests from some 124 Asia-Pacific cities of 41 countries and regions gathered in China's youngest municipality Wednesday. During the three-day summit, the first of its kind ever held in China and Asia as well, mayors, CEOs and scholars will have face-to-face dialogues and discussion on the relationship between the human being and the nature.

China sends 4th batch of relief materials to Pakistan

Two unidentified women check the relief materials donated to the earthquake-hit areas of Pakistan at an airport in Shijiazhuang, the capital of north China's Hebei province October 12, 2005. The transport aircraft, loaded with the fourth batch of relief materials including tents, woolen blankets, flied from Shijiazhuang to Pakistan on Wednesday.

Rogge starts six-day tour of Chinese cities

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge (L) gives a gift with the Olympic rings to Liu Peng, president of the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) on the welcome banquet held in Nanjing, capital of China's Jiangsu Province, Oct. 12, 2005. Rogge started his six-day tour of five Chinese cities on Tuesday, including attending the opening ceremony of the 10th National Games of The People's Republic of China on Wednesday night.

Relief materials rushed to quake-hit Pakistan

Pakistani residents stretch their hands for the relief materials in a earthquake-hit town of north Pakistan October 11, 2005. Rescuers in Pakistan battled to dig out more victims as donor countries rushed doctors, paramedics, medicine, food and sniffer dogs to the earthquake-stricken south Asian country.

Astronauts talk with families

Astronauts Nie Haisheng (left) and Fei Junlong, orbiting the Earth in the Shenzhou VI spacecraft, talk through phones with their family members October 12, 2005. China launched its second manned space mission Wednesday morning.